Liza
Jim heartfield wrote:
>
> In message <36A6CE4D.E2B5B550 at netlink.com.au>, rc&am
> <rcollins at netlink.com.au> writes
>
> > (this last theory of
> >the existence - rise? -of homosexuality in the article would be funny
> >if it were not so obviously wrong, an echo (mirror) of those who want
> >to 'return to the past' where there were no poofters.) mode of
> >production explanations i would like to see, but this does not work in
> >the slightest; and nor does affirming urbanisation for making it
> >possible to do the dirty with those of the same sex work enough for me
> >as an explanation to now turn to celebrating technology as liberatory,
> >as 'living marxism' would bid us do.
>
> I'm surprised that Angela objects to this, fairly routine argument that
> urbanisation creates a cosmopolitanism in which sexuality can develop
> apart from family ties. See for example John D'Emilio's essay Capitalism
> and Gay Identity.
> --
> Jim heartfield